Comments on: The story of the iconic cover art for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasureshttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 15 Sep 2014 23:11:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2By: Philboyd Studgehttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558987
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:54:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558987Hands up, everyone who has ever owned a t-shirt with that design.
]]>By: poivrehttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558756
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:11:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558756He doesn’t even know what he’s talking about – this is an INTENSITY variation in time at a given frequency, not a frequency variation. Also, pulsars aren’t directly related to black holes although both kinds are terminal stages of evolution…
]]>By: Dlo Burnshttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558438
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:15:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558438Hit ctrl and += until you see no more background.
]]>By: Beanolinihttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558354
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:57:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558354

depressing music written by a depressed person about being depressed

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

(I don’t find it depressing, it was not written by Curtis alone, and it’s certainly not entirely about being depressed).

]]>By: Brad Bellhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558345
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:13:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558345As an image from a black album of depressing music written by a depressed person about being depressed – a classic of affective culture – the graph looks like a measurement of relative emotional states. You can see most of the time it’s flatlining. Zero affect.

If you think it suggests mania, you are looking at it upside down ;-)

]]>By: oasisob1http://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558218
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:37:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558218If you click on the background of this page, it takes you to state farm. That’s incredibly annoying.
]]>By: nixiebunnyhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1558029
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:17:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1558029Am I the only person who works in radio astronomy and loves Joy Division? I hope not.

I once took the trouble of finding our library’s copy of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy to see the original artwork.

If you google “Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy”, you’ll see a lot of photos of that page of the encyclopedia in the image search.

Almost ’nuff. Does anyone have the citation of the article the original diagram appeared in?

]]>By: Thorzdadhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1557911
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:54:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1557911I have no shame in admitting that the cover was completely what convinced me to purchase this album way back then. It was just sitting there in the bin…calling me with that inscrutable design. Good stuff.
]]>By: David Pescovitzhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1557879
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:35:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1557879I bought a t-shirt with this in silver ink at the New Order show earlier this month!
]]>By: Mark Dowhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1557878
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:34:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1557878Too bad he doesn’t give credit for the scientific discovery and art itself. I’m betting Jocelyn Bell (Burnell) had a hand in the art as well as the science. Pictures are important.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
A nobel prize went to Hewish based on this work.
]]>By: Matthew Pettyhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1557875
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:33:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1557875Rhythmic emanations out of the deep dark.
]]>By: niktemadurhttp://boingboing.net/2012/10/16/the-story-of-the-iconic-cover.html#comment-1557852
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:19:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=187859#comment-1557852

is a data visualization of the signal emanating from the first pulsar to be observed by scientists.

Now I like that iconic album cover even more than I already did.
That pulsar was first called LGM-1 (as in Little Green Men), then it was given the more solemn designation PSR B1919+21.